Membership

IA News: A quarterly magazine containing information on current industrial archaeology events and news throughout the country.

The Annual Conference: A popular get-together for all members. Held in a different part of the country each year, this consists of a weekend conference complemented by an additional programme over several days of field trips and informative lectures. Detailed gazetteers of sites in the area of the conference are produced and supplied free to members.

Field Visits: In the UK and Overseas, organised and guided by people with long experience of Industrial Heritage tours.

Practical Days: Workshops and discussions about issues and problems common to societies and professionals working in the field of industrial archaeology.

Other conferences: To address specific interests and problems relating to industrial heritage.

AIA Awards: To encourage excellence in industrial archaeology.

A valuable forum: For individuals, amateur groups and professional bodies in the broad field of industrial archaeology.

But more importantly than the above, the support our members give us enables the AIA to continue its work in supporting and encouraging all aspects relating to our industrial heritage. We cannot do all we do, promoting IA at all levels – national and local – encouraging research, recording, conservation and preservation without our members’ help and support.

Membership is open to individuals (sole, joint or student) and to societies. It will be backdated to the beginning of the year in which you join and all publications for that year will be sent. Membership rates are:

UK Ordinary member GBP 33.00

UK Joint member GBP 38.00

UK Student member GBP 21.00

UK Affiliated Society member GBP 42.00

Overseas Ordinary member GBP 38.00

Overseas Joint member GBP 43.00

Overseas Student member GBP 26.00

Overseas Affiliated Society member GBP 47.00

Membership and subscriptions are administered on our behalf by the Taylor & Francis Group who have acquired the business of Maney Publishing.

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Gift Aid

Members who pay UK tax can benefit the Association by completing a Gift Aid Declaration. By agreeing that the subscription can be taken as Gift Aid we are enabled, as a charity, to reclaim tax. This means that the AIA receives an extra 25p from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for every £1 subscribed in this way. Click here for a Gift Aid Form [pdf].

Affiliated Societies

Organisations of similar and allied interests may affiliate to the AIA. Representatives may be nominated to exercise voting rights and all regular publications plus five copies of I A News are included. Attendance at events at AIA membership rates is available to the affiliated organisation’s members. UK membership £42.00. Overseas membership £47.00 Affiliated Society applications should use the postal form.

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Institutional subscriptions

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Hello! I am a Swede currently writing my master's degree thesis in industrial archaeology, looking at fish smokehouses in 18th century Sweden. I am looking for comparative materials from the UK.

Does anyone have any sources or works to share with me?

Looking for things like.... say, UK excavations of smokeries/smokehouses used for the curing of meat or fish, archaeological descriptions of the same, etc. from the medieval period and on into modern days.

Help is MUCH appreciated, as I as a foreigner doesn't have the knowledge necessary to search for British sources all too well. ... See MoreSee Less

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The act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date. This is done in hopes that the ghostee will just "get the hint" and leave the subject alone, as opposed to the subject simply telling them he/she is no longer interested. Ghosting is not s...

This weekend I visited the site of King Pit, a former colliery in Midgeholme, a remote village in east Cumbria, in which I grew up. The colliery, which closed in 1954, was one of a large number of coal pits in the immediate area, some of which operated as early as the 1600s, and was eventually served by a purpose built railway to Brampton which may have reached Midgeholme in 1824, or perhaps later.

The rail line was lifted and most of the structures torn down immediately after closure. By the time I grew up in Midgeholme (1980s) these buildings already gave the young me the impression of ancient ruins. Today the remains are gradually becoming overwhelmed by nature, and starting to disappear into the landscape. A row of mineworkers cottages at Low Midgeholme were also demolished at some point. Another row of workers cottages to the immediate east of the buildings shown survive, and the trackbed was improved to serve as a walking and cycling route (I think between Hallbankgate and Lambley) about 10 years ago.

Unfortunately I can't find many contemporary photos online to compare the remains to. There are loads of 1950s photos in Ian Tyler's book Cross Fell and Mines of the Cumbrian Pennines, but I guess it's not okay to post copies here.

I find the history of this area particularly compelling because of the stark landscape around here, in which men laboured beneath.

If anyone has an interest in this site or has any resources about it, I'd really like to know. ... See MoreSee Less

I'd like to make group members aware of a new Historic England Research Report on the significance of Stewartby Brickworks, Bedfordshire. research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16003 The site was once an import part of the Fletton-making industry and could once claim to have the biggest output in the world. ... See MoreSee Less

New book about salt making along the Atlantic coast of Portugal, Spain, France and the UK. Multiple authors edited by Loic Menanteau. At 500 pages and weighing in at 7kilos its a big book with excellent photos. ... See MoreSee Less

ust a hundred or so yards from Halstead, High Street, a small Essex town, lies a green area of woodland with protected trees, wetland and a Victorian garden that once belonged to Charles Portway, designer and manufacturer of the Tortoise stove.

The presence of such a site is unusual in a town centre, but rarer still is the large group of World War II air raid shelters, built in 1939 by Courtauld and Co. Ltd to protect workers from aerial assault.

The shelter group consists of 15 semi-sunken Costain type air raid shelters which held up to 50 people at a time. A 16th shelter was built above ground and probably used as a first aid post and communications room and ARP station.

Courtaulds had limited space upon which to build the shelters, so most were constructed in the gardens of their own industrial housing on Factory Lane East. They served the company’s staff during working hours and a log was kept of the time spent away from the looms throughout WW2. These log entries reveal that a total of 170 visits to the shelters were made. Time that should have been spent for the war effort weaving silk for the manufacture of parachutes.

For more than 50 years, this site has been abandoned by its many owners and the many plans put forward have come to nothing. The factory was demolished in 1986 but many of its buildings survive including the shelters - among some of the last structures to have been built as part of the complex.

We believe the shelters are important enough to be preserved Braintree District Council thinks otherwise. With complex ownership issues, theCouncil has led the drive to market the site for development.. A buyer has been found and a planning application is expected within 9 months.

The time to stand up and defend Halstead's WW2 industrial air raid shelters them could come soon.

I have just been speaking to a lady from this group. They are working to save a group of 16 industrial air raid shelters on a former Cortaulds site in Essex. Please take a look and help them if you can... ... See MoreSee Less